• title card: white all caps text reading ‘BOX OF TRICKS’ superimposed on Valerie’s body, lying face down on the floor with a bullet wound in her back
  • extreme close-up of Henriette talking to Steed
  • Denise’s body has fallen out of the cabinet, face up, strangled by a stocking
  • Venus anxiously prepares to enter the cabinet as Weston performs his act. The Dave Lee Trio can be seen in the background
  • Weston takes the tape from Gallam and threads it onto the player hidden inside the upright piano
  • Venus and Steed dance, Henriette is annoyed by Venus’ non-stop chattering

Series 2 — Episode 17
Box of Tricks

Teleplay by Peter Ling and Edward Rhodes
Directed by Kim Mills

Read the script (PDF 4.9MB)

Production No 3517, VTR/ABC/2299
Production completed: January 17 1963. First transmission: January 18 1963.